MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG137 : Sorghum bicolor(L.) Moench |
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| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Jowar, Sudan Grass, Jar | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Holcus bicolor Linnaeus, Mant. Pl. 2: 301. 1771 Andropogon bicolor (Linnaeus) Roxburgh Andropogon sorghum (Linnaeus) Brotero Andropogon sorghum var. technicus Körnicke Holcus cernuus Arduino Holcus dochna Forsskål Holcus sorghum Linnaeus Sorghum cernuum (Arduino) Host Sorghum dochna (Forsskål) Snowden Sorghum nervosum Besser ex Schultes Sorghum technicum (Körnicke) Roshevitz Sorghum vulgare Persoon, nom. illeg. superfl. |
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| Description : | Annual. Culms erect, robust, 3–5 m tall, 2–5 cm in diam.; nodes glabrous or pubescent. Leaf sheaths glabrous or slightly farinose; leaf blades linear or linear-lanceolate, 40–70 × 3–8 cm, glabrous; ligule subrounded, ciliate. Panicle very variable, lax or dense, cylindrical or pyramidal to obovate in outline, up to 60 cm, main axis elongate to very short; primary branches ascending or spreading, lower branches sometimes almost as long as panicle, stiff or pendulous; racemes tough at maturity, composed of 2–6 spikelet pairs. Sessile spikelet variable, broadly obovate to subglobose, 3.5–5.5 mm; callus hispid; lower glume leathery to papery, glabrous to pilose, pale creamy-green to dark brown or blackish at maturity, upper lemma usually awned; awn 0.4–1.5 cm. Pedicelled spikelet male or barren, linear-lanceolate, persistent or deciduous. Caryopsis large, often exposed between the gaping glumes. Fl. and fr. Jun–Sep. 2n = 20. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Sebua Silas Semenya and Alfred Maroyi; "Plants Used by Bapedi Traditional Healers to Treat Asthma and Related Symptoms in Limpopo Province, South Africa"; Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2018); Article ID 2183705, 33 pages PMID : ~ Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D.; "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra"; Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal (2014); 4(2): 155-165 PMID : |
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